Top 100 Quotes About Narnia
#1. I take it he was in the closet?"
"He might as well have been in Narnia.
Anna Zabo
#2. Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If
Alister E. McGrath
#3. I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
Skandar Keynes
#4. Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
C.S. Lewis
#5. That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.
Seanan McGuire
#6. Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.
Tim Pratt
#7. I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.
Will Poulter
#8. Those are the big mountains between Archenland and Narnia. I must have come through the pass in the night. What luck that I hit it!
at least, it wasn't luck at all, really. It was Him! And now, I'm in Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#9. I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'
Lisa Papademetriou
#10. Making the decision to leave Valve strikes me as right up there with turning down the throne to Narnia, but then call me an idealist, and I guess I probably wouldn't want to spend my whole life making new hats for Team Fortress 2 either.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#11. Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.
Stephen King
#12. Like his fellow genius, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness beauty, and dimension ... In our times, every fantasy realm must be measured in comparison with Narnia.
Lloyd Alexander
#13. Prince Caspian lived in a great castle in the center of Narnia with his uncle, Miraz, the King of Narnia, and his aunt, who had red hair and was called Queen Prunaprismia.
C.S. Lewis
#14. I didn't come out to my parents until the day I left for college."
"Yeah? That must've sucked."
"Yeah," he said, shrugging. "I spent most of my high school years so far in the closet I was having adventures in Narnia.
Jay McLean
#15. Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
Aasif Mandvi
#16. The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
Chris Riddell
#17. This is the reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little you might come to know me better there".
-Aslan, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis
#18. In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?
Helen Oyeyemi
#19. You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
- Narnia
C.S. Lewis
#20. I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.
H.B. Bolton
#21. I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy
#22. This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia
in our world they usually don't talk at all.
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
#23. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#24. With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?'
[Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.'
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Dean Koontz
#25. Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#26. I wake up in Satan's butthole. Everything is white - white walls, white beds, white light. Or Narnia. It could be Narnia. Did I die and go to Narnia? Because that would be rad.
Sara Wolf
#27. That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was like she'd walked out of a dusty old wardrobe and found Narnia.
Anne Ursu
#30. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? I
Neil Gaiman
#32. Adult stories never made sense, and they were so slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?
Neil Gaiman
#33. Fuck this shit I'm going to Narnia
Unknown
#34. I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.
James McAvoy
#35. This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.
C.S. Lewis
#36. You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there.
Michael Marshall Smith
#37. When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'
James McAvoy
#38. Narnia, held captive by the "post-Christian" Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.
Louis A. Markos
#39. But who is Aslan? Do you know him?"
"Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#40. I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.
Jhene Aiko
#41. The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It's like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.
Naomi Novik
#42. When i was 9 I didn't go to Narnia, when i grew 11 my Hogwarts letter didn't come, again when i was twelve my satyr didn't come and now I'll wait till I'm fifty maybe the hunger games will come
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#43. That's all right," said Edmund. "Between ourselves, you haven't been as bad as I was on my first trip to Narnia. You were only an ass, but I was a traitor.
C.S. Lewis
#44. When that happens you'll say, like Jewel the Unicorn at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia, "I've come home at last! This is my real country ... This is the land I've been looking for all my life."15
Timothy Keller
#45. and there was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. My
Neil Gaiman
#46. We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.
C.S. Lewis
#47. I confronted her about it a few times, but she always denies it. She's so far inside the closet, Lana, she might as well be halfway to Narnia. My sister has some serious issues with coming out.
L. H. Cosway
#48. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.
C.S. Lewis
#49. So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books.
Luisa Weiss
#50. [Aslan said,] Well done, last of the Kings of Narnia, who stood firm at the darkest hour.
C.S. Lewis
#51. I imagine possible relations all the time. All the time. My God, in my teens I was fucking tragic for it. I scarcely existed in the real world at all. I lived in some kind of ... Sex Narnia. My love life was busy, exciting, and totally imaginary.
Caitlin Moran
#52. They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children's literature of the twentieth century.
Douglas Gresham
#53. You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.
Laini Taylor
#54. But that would be putting the clock back," gasped the Governor. "Have you no idea of progress, of development?"
"I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it Going bad in Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#55. I've lived on the equator all my life and we never had to change clocks. Now they're telling me time goes forward an hour after midnight? What is this, Narnia?
Joyce Rachelle
#56. But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there.
Reza Aslan
#57. So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here.
Gregory Maguire
#58. My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
Aselin Debison
#59. Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?'
I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.'
Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.
C.S. Lewis
#60. Why demand ye of me where the land of Oomaldee lies? Did they do the same of C.S. Lewis and his Narnia?
L.R.W. Lee
#61. I felt like I was being pulled through a dark, dank wardrobe into some boozy Narnia.
Brittany Cavallaro
#62. The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
G. Willow Wilson
#63. I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.
Jacqueline Carey
#64. If Duncan was ever into men then he's been so far in the closet he's been living in Narnia.
Dana Marie Bell
#65. Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.
C.S. Lewis
#67. After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.
Ysabeau S. Wilce
#68. Daryl shrugged. If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.
Bryan Davis
#69. The best thing about having brothers and sisters is that they're brutally honest. My brother just got the 'Narnia' game, and first thing he does is kill me in it! Six times, over and over again!
William Moseley
#70. I peeked my head into the closet, looking for a trap door, hand grenades, the wardrobe to Narnia - anything that might help.
Mark Tufo
#71. Oh, God. I'm trapped in the fucking Chronicles of Narnia."
"I'm sure that would be an amusing reference, if I understood it.
Richelle Mead
#72. Suddenly, everything I'd ever read made sense. All of the cliches about electricity and drowning and falling and other sinister metaphors for a kiss all swept over me. It was nuclear fusion. It was the door to Narnia.
Lily Anderson
#73. Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
Shawn Ashmore
#74. Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia," and she loaned Jess all of her books about Narnia, so he would know how things went in a magic kingdom - how the animals and the trees must be protected and how a ruler must behave.
Katherine Paterson
#75. This didn't seem to have anything to do with Old Narnia, which was what Caspian really wanted to hear about, but getting up in the middle of the night is always interesting and he was moderately pleased.
C.S. Lewis
#76. For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.
Joe Fassler
#77. She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.
Anne Ursu
#78. The new King of Narnia helped both the children up: that is, he gave Digory a rough heave and set Polly as gently and daintily on the horse's back as if she were made of china and might break.
C.S. Lewis
#79. I'd rather be killed fighting for Narnia than grow old and stupid at home and perhaps go about in a bath-chair and then die in the end just the same.
C.S. Lewis
#80. 'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
Stanley Hauerwas
#81. But so far he's stayed so deep in the closet, they're going to crown him king of Narnia.
Z.A. Maxfield
#82. This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#83. We hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn't incidental.
Sarah Arthur
#84. I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!
Robin Sloan
#85. Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#86. 'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.
William Moseley
#87. I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.
Lev Grossman
#88. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#89. You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does.
Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!
C.S. Lewis
#90. I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.
William Moseley
#91. Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.
Ridley Scott
#92. The bedroom was as opulently decorated as the front room, with a bed large enough to hold six, and a wardrobe that should by all rights have contained a doorway to Narnia, or at least the deeper lands of Faerie.
Seanan McGuire
#93. Even if there was the slightest probability Cael was right, Ash was so deep in the closet, he was taking Aslan's place in Narnia.
Charlie Cochet
#94. Readers the world over are always so let down that Hogwarts and Narnia and Middle Earth don't exist, that they will never be able to visit their favorite fictional places.
E. Lorn
#95. I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
Margaret Stohl
#96. Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.
Thom Yorke
#97. Narnia. The happy land of Narnia
Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs, Narnia of the many rivers, the plashing glens, the mossy caverns and the deep forests ringing with the hammers of the Dwarfs ...
C.S. Lewis
#98. The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.
Neil Gaiman
#100. Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.
Katherine Paterson
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